Storing tobacco

[abcd]

Hey, new here! I've read up a bit and I know that a clean mason jar is a good way to store your tobacco. My question is, if the tobacco is in a plastic bag, can you store different types (different bags) in the same jar? I'm guessing not, but if I end up with several different types I'd rather not have to take over my one of my wife's cabinets.
Thanks in advance!

 

[taerin]

Short answer is no, and yes you need a cabinet, most of us horde them in a large space somewhere. This hobby is hard to confine to a small area.

 

[abcd]

That's kind of what I figured. I just saw some else reference their "tobacco cellar", so I got the impression that it can take up a fair amount of space, haha.
Thank you so much for the quick reply

 

[rigmedic1]

Not all of us require a lot of space for our tobacco "cellars". I have a shelf in a closet that would fit the 9 pounds or so of miscellaneous blends I like to keep on hand. I wrap my tins in plastic wrap, just in case they should unseal. My bulk blends go into bale top jars, unless I intend to age them, then I use canning jars.

I also would discourage placing different tobaccos into the same jars, unless your goal is to make all your tobacco taste the same. It is much like cigars, that the tobacco absorbs all the essences nearby.

 

[spartan]

For things that I'm still sampling I keep them all in a plastic tub in Ziploc bags. A few rounds of the box pass and a few great deals on H&H sampler packs and I still have a shitload of things I'm still not sure if I like and am still sampling.

And for storage I have a small record player that has a nice space for records... now it's used for tobacco.

 

[cortezattic]

Welcome to the forums, abcd! :clap:
I agree with the advice you've already received. I just want to add that storage in plastic bags is risky.

They are meant to seal in moisture, but much of what goes into the flavor of a blend -- complex organic molecules --

can walk right through plastic as if it wasn't there. Glass or a sealed tin is your only assurance. To learn more

about this issue check out G.L.Pease's blog, Those Pesky Non-polar Molecules.

 

[mathoozula]

great info on storage!!

 

[bbaumer]

I'm also new to the hobby and am looking to order some tobacco. How long can you store tobacco in a tin? I am deployed and want to order enough to last me a while without having to place multiple orders. Mail takes about 3 weeks, and repedative shipping costs add up. Plus I tend to move around a lot as missions dictate, so having a supply on hand would be nice.

 

[drwatson]

135 lbs and still going! You will need some space! I get most of what I like in bulk and out in jars. Different size jars are great. I try not to leave in bags for more than a month or two. I wpuldn't stick two different blends in same jar. One may absorb the other.

 

[phil67]

drwatson wrote:

135 lbs and still going!

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You have to be joking of course! Unless you're planing for some type of nuclear war and plan on opening up a black market when all settles down (if you should survive). Then again, I seriously doubt that pipe tobacco would be the foremost commodity in demand with the others that also survive! :lol:

 

[rangerearthpig]

Oh man........more stuff to acquire..................."sorry, Honey" (to wifey)........ 8O

 

[petes03]

I haven't done a good count in a long while, but I'd say I have somewhere between 20 and 25lbs squirreled away. I'd like to have at least 4 times that much, but I'm not made out of money. My cellar is a drop in the bucket compared to some guys! I wish I had got an earlier start, if I had been cellaring the same as I do now the whole time I've been smoking a pipe, I'm sure I could have several hundred pounds put away! I hope to add a few more pounds before the $#!+ hits the fan with the newly proposed taxes.
By the way, I'd say 75% of my cellar is in jars, the rest is in tins.

 

[escioe]

I put my sealed tins in a cardboard box and put it out of sight. For sealed jars I'm leaving sealed for a while, I keep the cardboard case that they come in, and stack a few of those in a box that fits it pretty well.
I tend to only have maybe 3 tins or jars open at the same time, so this may not work for folks with larger rotations. I don't open jars of aged tobaccos unless I'm intending to smoke half of the contents pretty quickly. I think every time you open the jar, you lose something, and a big rotation means that I'd have older blends losing their magic while I smoke through things.